laleesh
03-13-2004, 03:09 PM
the cat'lics
in their deep depression
spent
in lent
their best confessions made
obeyed their fasts and stayed at home
prayed
and played at be'n pious;
bar rooms filled
and pubs devoid of all that jesus -
freak'dazoid!
march hares merry
in the green
dashed their hallowed irish e'en on the ward!
(the ward refers to adele and surrounding streets - st thomas, st andrew, josephine and tchoupitoulas - which lie in what used to be called the irish channel in new orleans, now a federal housing project and all these words imply, no longer inhabited by the irish save for one or two die-hard families amidst a strictly negro population!)
in their deep depression
spent
in lent
their best confessions made
obeyed their fasts and stayed at home
prayed
and played at be'n pious;
bar rooms filled
and pubs devoid of all that jesus -
freak'dazoid!
march hares merry
in the green
dashed their hallowed irish e'en on the ward!
(the ward refers to adele and surrounding streets - st thomas, st andrew, josephine and tchoupitoulas - which lie in what used to be called the irish channel in new orleans, now a federal housing project and all these words imply, no longer inhabited by the irish save for one or two die-hard families amidst a strictly negro population!)